Abstracts tagged "bone density and sarcopenia"

Abstract Number: 1961 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk Factors for Low Muscle MASS in Community-Dwelling Older Women: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study in Brazil. the São Paulo Ageing & Health Study
Ketty Machado¹, Diogo S Domiciano², Luana G Machado³, Jaqueline B Lopes⁴, Camille P Figueiredo⁵, Valéria F. Caparbo³, Liliam Takayama³, Paulo Menezes⁶ and Rosa M R Pereira², ¹Rheumatology, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ²Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ³Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Rheumatology Division, Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina da USP, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁵Rheumatology Division, Faculdade de Medicina da USP, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁶Preventive medicine, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose: Sarcopenia is a syndrome characterized by progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass, which results in decreased muscle strength and impairment of functional capacity. Moreover,…